Patio with outdoor sofa and hot borders
Before: a plain lawn and worn deck with a covered hot tub
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A garden planner app that plans it for you
Plan your garden from your phone: take one photo, pick a style and see your own garden planned in about a minute. Or start from any garden on this page.
UK, US or anywhere else: plants picked to thrive where you live, in your light and soil.
Design my gardenOver 500 garden designs made.
23 gardens planned in the app
Every one is a real garden, planned from one photo with the app, and each says what was there before. Tap Before to see the photo. Like one? Tap Get this garden to plan your own garden in the same style, with the same plants.
Whole gardens, planned in the app
Tired lawns, bare earth and a worn deck, each planned in the app as a whole new garden from one photo. 7 gardens
Dry field turned into a lawn and deep borders
Before: a dry brown lawn with a washing line beyond wooden decking
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Modern lawn garden
Before: plain patio slabs, a bare patch of lawn and a parked bike
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Bare earth turned into curved flower beds and gravel round a dining patio
Before: bare earth with a dining table and parasol by a modern house
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A long deck into a jungle of bananas, ferns and palms, with a pergola and summerhouse
Before: a patchy lawn with building materials, a blue shed and fence
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Shady garden with a water feature under trees
Before: bare earth and piles of rubbish beyond a deck under trees
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A family lawn with a swing and trampoline, a new fence and a border of shrubs
Before: a family lawn with a swing, trampoline and garden sofas on a deck
Get this garden →Front gardens, planned from one photo
Dry front lawns, gravel and bare beds by the door, planned from a photo taken out the front. 8 gardens
Front garden path with cottage planting
Before: a dry front lawn beside a driveway and a low hedge
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Cottage front garden
Before: a slate chip front garden by a blue door and bench
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Front garden of gravel and lavender
Before: a gravel front garden with a few shrubs and pots
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Bungalow front garden in full flower
Before: a plain front lawn and driveway by a bungalow
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Gravel front garden turned into a flagstone path through flowers
Before: a gravelly front garden with a few shrubs beside a white cottage
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Bare bed in front of a porch filled with roses and foxgloves
Before: bare soil and a lone shrub in front of a wooden porch
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Front garden of gravel, grasses and red flowers
Before: bare raked soil inside a wooden picket fence facing the road
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Grasses and blue flowers round a front tree
Before: a young tree in a round bare bed on a gravel drive
Get this garden →Patios, courtyards and roof terraces
Small paved spaces, planned to the space they have: a shady yard, a weedy brick patio, a roof terrace. 8 gardens
Small shady courtyard
Before: a small paved yard cluttered with a tarp, pots and boards
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Rose and foxglove courtyard
Before: a gravel yard with a stone table, a brick wall and shed
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Pale paving, a pergola and spiky leaves
Before: a lawn and slab patio with a swing seat by the house
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Small courtyard with a bench and white flowers
Before: a cluttered paved yard with a chair and a block wall
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A roof terrace of pots, with an olive, agaves and cordylines round a dining table
Before: a grey deck with a dining set behind a glass balustrade
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Birches, a built in bench and a fire table
Before: a weedy brick patio with a round table and chairs
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Grey paving and dark leaves
Before: a paved patio scattered with toys, a hanging chair and patchy lawn
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Gravel courtyard with olive trees
Before: a worn lawn with stepping slabs, pots and a corner sofa
Get this garden →How the garden planning app works
Search for a garden app and most of what you find is built for vegetable rows, or asks you to draw your plot first. This one starts with a photo you take on your phone, so you don't need to know the name of a single plant.
Take a photo, and choose what to plan
One photo from your phone is all it takes. Plan the whole garden, or mark and measure just one border.
Choose the look
Pick one of 15 styles and a colour scheme, then ask for anything you want, like "add a wildlife pond". Or tap Get this garden on any garden on this page.
See it planned
Your real garden, planted, in about a minute.
What you get for free
- First 3 designs freeSee your own garden planned with no card and no catch.
- Works on your phoneNothing to install: it runs in your browser.
- Styles to chooseCottage, Mediterranean and more.
- Real, growable plantsReal garden plants that suit your space and where you live.
Try the garden planner app free
See your own garden planned first. When you find the look you love, Pro or Max plans turn it into a garden you can plant.
See what goes into a planting plan before you choose.
Your first 3 designs are free.
Watermarked and lower quality. No card needed.
| One payment, no subscription. | ||
| What you get | ||
| Designs | 20 | 50 |
| Days to use them | 14 | 30 |
| Free designs on top | 5 | 10 |
| Designs at once, side by side | 2 | 4 |
| With every design | ||
| Every plant named, ready to buy | ||
| The materials, gravel to fence, with whole garden designs | ||
| Care guide and flowering calendar | ||
| Higher quality images | ||
| No watermark | ||
| Change any design in your own words | ||
With the Pro and Max plans
Every plant named, ready to buy
The pot size to buy and how tall each grows. Measured borders also say how many to buy.
From a whole garden plan
| Plant | Pot | Height |
|---|---|---|
| Catmint 'Walker's Low'Nepeta × faassenii | 1 to 2 L | 10 to 50 cm |
| Avens 'Totally Tangerine'Geum | 2 L | 50 cm to 1 m |
| Giant montbretiaCrocosmia masoniorum | 2 L | 1 to 1.5 m |
| Tellmann's honeysuckleLonicera × tellmanniana | 3 to 5 L | 2.5 to 4 m |
A care guide for every plant
Where it grows best, how to prune it and how it gets through winter.
From a care guide
Avens ‘Totally Tangerine’
- Grows best in
- Fertile soil that drains well, in full sun
- Pruning
- Deadhead to promote more blooms, and cut back old stems after flowering
- Hardiness
- Very hardy: tolerates the coldest UK winters
- Habit
- Dies back in winter and returns in spring
Catmint ‘Walker’s Low’
- Pruning
- Trim after flowering to keep plants compact and to encourage a second flowering
A flowering calendar
Every plant, the months it flowers, in its own colour.
From a flowering calendar
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Avens 'Totally Tangerine'
Catmint 'Walker's Low'
Clematis 'The President'
Lady's mantle
Clean pictures, no watermark
Higher quality images of your design, yours to keep.
gardendesignapp.aiChange any design in your own words
Say what you want different, and see it redrawn.
ExampleMake the path wider and add a bench.
The materials, gravel to fence
On whole garden designs: the paving, gravel, edging and fence in the picture.
Example
Golden gravelSandstone pavingOak sleepersFeather edge fence
Plants that thrive where you live
In the UK, the US or anywhere else, we take your location and only give you plants that will thrive in your conditions.
Your locationYour lightYour soilPlants that thrive there
Why not a garden designer?
Save over £1,900. The average UK garden design costs £1,950.
A designer can visit, measure and oversee the build. When you want that, bring the look you found here.
What the garden plan app does for you
How it plans, what it plants, and how it differs from the planner apps you draw in.
A garden planner app that does the planning
This app to plan your garden does the hard part for you. You photograph your garden, mark your beds and add their measurements, then pick a look, and it plans the planting, keeping your fences, paths and trees where they are, filling the beds to the space you have, and showing you the finished garden in about a minute. It is planning made simple: all the thinking a designer would do, from a photo taken on your phone. It starts as a free garden planner: your first 3 designs cost nothing and no card is asked for.
Real plants, planned properly
It works as a garden planting app too: every plant is a real garden plant, chosen for your light, soil and climate by a professional gardener's rules and worked out to the size of your beds, so you can follow the plan with confidence. You choose from real styles: cottage, Mediterranean, shady and more. The planting is tuned to whichever you pick.
Nothing to download
It isn't in the App Store or Google Play: it runs in your phone's browser, on an iPhone or an Android phone, so there is nothing to download, update or make room for. It is a garden planning app free to start with: open it, take a photo in the garden, and your first 3 designs cost nothing. That makes it a free garden planner app from the first tap.
Which garden planning app is best?
It depends what you are planning. For a vegetable plot, the best garden planner app is one built for rows, spacing and sowing dates. For the garden you look at from the house, its borders, paths, lawn and planting, this one designs it from a photo of your real garden. And unlike a garden builder app, where you drag shapes onto a blank plan, it draws the new garden into your photo, seen from where you stand.
More ways to plan your garden
Ready to start? Design my garden shows how one photo becomes a new garden in about a minute.
On a computer? Here is how the app compares with most garden design software.
Only one border to sort? The garden border planner plans just that border and leaves the rest of the garden as it is.
Changing the shape of the garden? The garden layout planner plans a new layout, with new paths and beds, from one photo.
Just starting out? The free garden planner plans your garden from one photo, and your first 3 designs are free.
Just one bed to plan? The flower bed designer works on just that bed.
Garden styles to plan with
Garden planner app questions
What is the best free app for garden planning?
For a vegetable plot, a planner built for rows and sowing dates. For the garden you look at, its borders, paths and planting, this garden planner app designs it from one photo, and your first 3 designs are free, with no card.
How does the AI garden design work?
Upload a photo of your garden or a single border, and tell us what you'd like: refresh your borders, keeping your garden's shape, or redesign the whole space with new layout, paths and planting. Pick a style, and we generate a photorealistic redesign of your actual garden. When you love one, unlock its planting plan: every plant, how big each grows, and where each goes.
Are the plants real? Can I actually buy and plant them?
Yes. Every design can become a planting plan of real plants you can buy, chosen for where you live, with each plant's mature height and spread, where it goes and a month-by-month flowering guide. The plans are built on real horticultural data and shaped by a professional gardener, not generic AI guesses, so the garden in the picture is a garden you can genuinely plant.
Do I need a special photo or camera?
No, a normal phone photo is perfect. Photograph your whole garden if it's small and simple, or one border at a time for larger or more complex gardens, where each bed has its own light and soil.
Is it really free, and what does it cost after?
Yes, your first 3 garden designs are free, straight away. Free designs carry a small watermark. Pro is £29 and Max £49, each one payment that covers your whole project, and every design you make with either comes with every plant named, plus a clean, higher quality image that is yours to keep. Pro makes two designs at once, Max four.
Is it a real app I download from the App Store?
It runs in your phone's web browser, so there is nothing to download or update: you just open it and start. It works the same on a phone, tablet or computer.
Where do I buy the plants?
Wherever suits you. The planting plan names real, widely available garden plants, so you can take it to any good garden centre or order them online, all at once or a bit at a time.
Is there a garden design app for Android?
Yes, this one. It runs in the browser on Android phones and iPhones alike, so there is nothing to install.
Plan your garden from your phone.
Take one photo of your garden and see it planned in about a minute. Your first 3 designs are free, with no card.
Design my garden